War Quotes
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.William Shakespeare
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.Charles Manson
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.William Tecumseh Sherman
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.Ayn Rand
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.Saint Augustine
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.Marilyn King
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.James Agee
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.Glen Cook, Shadow Games
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.Woodrow Wilson
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.Francois Fenelon
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.Umberto Eco
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.Mel Colgrove
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.Jacobi
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.A. G. Buckham
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.William Gladstone
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.Norman Vincent Peale
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.Albert Camus
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.Carlos Castaneda
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.Cicero
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
